I'm so glad so many people have taken to this story so quickly, I am sorry to say it is not a Ned and Elia story but you guys have really tempted me to like one because I do think that could be a really fun pairing. Anyways please enjoy and thanks for reading!

I could not sleep all night wondering if my luck has changed and if for better or for worse. I was sure I would know no more love in this marriage and this husband my not be like Rhaegar. Rhaegar may have never loved me but he was always kind to me. He always did his best by me until he loved another. Whose to say about this husband, I thought of the men he might choose.

I had hoped for Jon Ayrrn a polite older man who had no sons of his own and would likely not be to be disappointed to have none by me, perhaps he would raise Aegon as his own, perhaps he would love Rhaenys. But he had been married to some Riverlands girl.

I had almost given up the dream of ever stepping foot in Dorne again although I heard from a loud gossiping servant girl that when he decided to rid himself of us word got out he would send us away and every Dornish unmarried Lord begged to have my hand, surly for the reward Doran would give them or fear of Oberyn but I couldn't help feel honored, we were still royalty somewhere. A small joy in my life and the only joy I have had in years is my children.

My darkest fear was the Lannisters or more likely someone who belonged to them someone loyal to them that would kill us for Tywin.

My hopes were stoked when a young girl came in, Lysa Ayrrn came to bring a gift from her husband travel clothes for me and my children. I thanked her, but she did not leave.

"I've seen you before you know." She said. "You were at Harrenhall and you were pregnant and covered in jewels, you had on these ruby earrings I always remember, you looked lovely."

"That's very kind." I said back.

"I don't know who you are to marry but my husband looked over a list of possibilities, it was on his desk I saw it." She said, and I understood what we were doing. I went over to my bed and lifted it slightly, I had been hoping to sell these for passage to Dorne. Rhaegar gave them to me when he heard of our engagement. I was more then willing to exchange them for me and my children's fate. I handed them to her freely.

She admired them as she talked. "Benjen Stark, Howlen Reed, Roose Bolton, my father's bannerman Lord Walder Frey, and Tyrion Lannister. She said simply before leaving even though I had a thousand questions.

I knew nothing of Benjen besides his brother, perhaps Eddard put his brother up to it, he needed no heirs of which I was incapable of giving, his brother was Lord and had a healthy boy and a girl and another on the way along with a bastard son.

Howlen Reed and Roose Bolton were names I did not know so I assumed they were Northmen, under Eddard Stark I doubted they would kill us but all three of those men would also never let us go. They would do their duty as our warden.

Lord Walder was of course to humiliate and lower me and my children, my poor children would be treated like scum in the twins. But he was a man of no honor perhaps he would take my brothers bribe. No, we were not the richest house in the seven kingdoms, but they would come up with the money if they had to tax every lord in Dorne. I wasn't sure I was worth it, but my children were.

Tyrion Lannister had already been offered to me as a baby which angered my mother to no end and we left the rock, he was only a baby then and now he was a boy only 12, he needed a mother not a wife. Which would be no great strain for me to care for him along with my children but I would have to live in the lions den with Tywin Lannister.

I stayed awake most of the night just listening to my children's breath it was the only thing to calm me. At 5 and 20 I was not as young as I once was, when I rose I looked over our travel clothes, they were not fancy they were not red and black, we would look more like refuges then royals which I assumed was supposed to be that way. We were to draw no attention to ourselves, there was even a small knitted hat for my son to cover his white hair.

I humored them, mostly. The few jewels I had of value I sewn into our clothes, my ruby Targaryen circlet was put around my sons waste like a belt, then I put the grubby clothes over it so none would be the wiser.

When Ser Selmy came into our rooms we were ready.

"Is there anything you need carried pr-my lady?" He asked forgetting that even though he called me his princess for years and swore oaths to my husband and son I was no longer his princess.

"No, we don't have anything." I told him simply. My daughter held her big black cat and the rag doll I made her and my son the rightful king of the seven kingdoms and a prince of Dorne had only a blanket he loved that was made for him when he was born, it was black and red with Golden crowns because he was born to be king, we all took great care of it as it was the only nice thing Robbert left him with.

"He has no toys?" He asked.

I shook my head he was sad that we had fallen so low, I know he loved Rhaegar and hated being apart of taking his family away in secret.

He took us down to the carriage that we were stuffed into quickly but their seemed some confusion concerning our travel that a knight and the coach driver were discussing. I opened the window to hear them better when Jamie Lannister came up. "Keep this closed." He said simply shutting it.

"Wait!" I heard a women's voice and Jamie opened the carriage for Cersei to look at us, she did not always hate us, I think she used to pity us, but now with a boy of her own, she only saw me and mine as a threat, and of course my true born Targaryen would always be a threat to the son of the usurper. I was fine with Aegon never sitting on the throne, just for him to live and be happy and safe.

She snatched the blanket from my sons' hands. "Something else that now belongs to Joffrey "she said and Jamie shut the door leaving me to comfort my poor sobbing boy, that was all he had of his father. "Think I have some things of his in Dorne." I soothed quietly. "when we get home you and Rhaenys may have everything of his we can find." I told him.

From the carriage I tried to figure out where we were headed. It wasn't getting colder, so I didn't think we were going to the Riverland's. So that meant to Tyrion and the westerlands. Perhaps their I could get to Essos and Melarino, my good sisters family would pity us and take us to Dorne.

Travel takes only a few weeks and I recognize some of our stops from my travel to Kingslanding. They would let us out at night and we would eat and sit around a fire and then we would get back in the carriage and they would move all night, they wanted to get us there quickly and were often disgruntled at stopping for the many potty breaks that came with traveling with children. Jamie and Ser Barristan took turns every other night one of them would get to sleep as we ate around the fire.

I finally had the courage to ask as Jamie seemed asleep in the dirt and Ser Barristan smiled a sad smile watching Aegon eat the salted meat.

"Ser Barristan, I wondered if you would be kind enough to tell us where we are headed?" I asked trying to speak softly, not softly enough.

"We cannot say dowager princess." Jamie said with his eyes closed and we loaded back into the carriage, every night I held them in my arms but my poor son could barely sleep, every night he tossed and turned and was so afraid and in the morning he could only tell me that he was running but he could never remember what from, but in my heart I knew what he was running from, what he would always be running from, what would always chase him and was even chasing him in his dreams, it was a stag, it had to be. For three more days until finally we arrived. I heard them call for the gates to open and going in past them and wanted to look out the window so terribly bad.

"Momma are we going to live here now?" Rhaenys asked.

"For now." I told her quietly.

"It's very important you both do what mommy tells you to while we are here." I told them.

As the carriage opened I held both of their hands. I looked around at the Baratheon stags confused when I saw him.

"Lord Stannis." Jamie said cheekily, the older man was not amused. "You've done your duty." He said dismissing them.

"Willing to marry your brother's enemy to get Stormsend I see." Jamie jeered but was scolded by ser Barristan.

"Ser Barristan, why don't you let your horses rest and eat at the table before your long journey home" Stannis said he was a tall man with dark black hair and he was only one and twenty he looked me up and down before looking back at Ser Barristan Selmy. "You can even sleep here if you keep your boy at bay." He said simply before getting back to work going away from the court yard when he finally looked back at us and gestured for me to come and take his arm. I rearranged my children pulling Aegon to my other side and having him hold hands with both me and Rhaenys who moved over for him.

I walked to this tall boy I knew nothing of wondering if I was excepting my future or our fate. Surely Roberts own brother would never be a friend to us, we would have to escape, but for now we would have to play our parts, he was the brave commander who had taken down the Targaryen fleet and we were his prisoners. He was the Stag we would run from.